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Posted on January 24, 2023 (Updated on July 10, 2025)

What’s the keyboard shortcut for select/deselect (on/off) multiple layers in QGIS?

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How do I uncheck multiple layers in QGIS?

Click the DESELECT FEATURES FROM ALL LAYERS tool.

What is the keyboard shortcut for deselect?

Pressing the Ctrl key, you can click, or click-and-drag to deselect any cells or ranges within a selection.

How do I turn layers on and off in QGIS?

By clicking on it, you can see the option for display / mask the selected layers. You can also go to the Settings menu > Shortcuts , find these options (one for display selected, one for mask selected) and affect the shortcut you want.
 

What do you press on the keyboard to select multiple layers?

To select more than one layer, Ctrl+click (Win) or Command+click (Mac) each layer that you want to select. To deselect a selected layer, Ctrl/Command+click it again.
 

How do I deselect multiple layers?

Ways to deselect layers

  1. Click into an empty area of the canvas.
  2. Hold command and click a layer to remove it from a selection of multiple layers.


How do I deselect all layers?

Ctrl + click in the document window and outside the canvas area with the move tool. This will deselect all the layers.

What command is deselect all?

Use the Home | Selection | Select All | Deselect All command or the button, or press CTRL+SHIFT+A on the keyboard, to deselect all selected objects. This command is useful when zoomed in on objects.

What is CTRL Shift K?

‘Ctrl’ + ‘shift’ +’K is the shortdut used for the ‘Quick Filter Bar’. Using those keys will put the flashing text cursor in the Quick Filter Bar search field.
 

How do I unselect a selection tool?

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How do you edit multiple layers at once?

Quote from video: You want to be able to go back to the original. So i've done that already. And now what i'm going to do i'm going to edit. This line layer as i want i'm going to record how i've edited.

How do I edit multiple layers in QGIS?

Select the layer in the Layers panel and click Layer | Toggle Editing. Alternatively you can right click on a layer in the Layers panel and choose Toggle Editing from the context menu. Multiple layers can be edited at a time. The layer currently being edited is the one selected in the Layers panel.
 

What is a quick way to turn off all of the layers at once except the one you want?

Hides or locks all layers except those of the selected objects.
 

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